Saturday, July 28, 2007

DIGITAL DREAMS in different versions

When someone asked me why I gave this title to this series of new works I jokingly replied with a question, "Are our dreams digital or analog?" This is in reference to the flood of new and more advanced digital video and cameras and the gradual disappearance of analog devices.

Actually, the title is meant to fit the image it represents. In this age of everything turning digital it is surprising to discover that for the last five years that I have bought CDs, VCDs and now DVDs the design of their case has evolved. The change was so fast that older designs are not available in the market nowadays.

In utilizing these old CD/VCD/DVD cases collections plus recycling those old, broken ones I tried to preserve them by turning them into works of art. By exposing their designs and shapes and by enhancing them with textures and colors they are unrecognizable at first glance. But the addition of real CDs of different colors one will realize they once existed.

In the years to come, especially now that the problem of overflowing rubbish and landfill management become headaches especially in big cities, surely these once junk pieces now somehow serve as archeological finds long before their time of discovery comes.

CHOPSTICKS & PAINTBRUSHES

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

"My life as an artist, constantly energized by ideas and inspirations, continuously flows freely like water until it reaches a point of equilibrium. This roller-coaster journey of success and failures, of frustrations and rewards go on every time fresh ideas are in mind." (read more onFREE FLOW)

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EXHIBITION GUIDE

FREE FLOW: Going with the flowBy opening this link you will be able to read a guide to the whole exhibition, understand why these artpieces were selected and the manner of which they were arranged on the gallery walls based on the artists overall exhibition concept.

The experience derived from this exhibition will somehow serve as a briefing that would give people an idea on how it is to live in "world cities" .

About Me

I am the eldest in the family of artists. My three brohers, one sister, my wife, her sister (who happens to be my brother's wife) and my cousin are into arts and crafts. Our late father and our uncle did graphic design and crafts too while our mom did fashion design. So art seems to run in the family and is showing signs of being inherited by our children.
FERRARIS ART STUDIO is a company of the Ferraris Family of artists and creative professionals. We are all self-taught, learned from and have competed against each other but inspired one another.
My own personal preoccupation now, aside from earning a living for my family through art, is to educate people about the role of art in spirituality and to rectify the use of art that lead to idolatry. Art, although believed to be a kind of international visual language, could speak a thousand words through the images made out of it and could therefore act as textbooks to the ignorant. That's why an accompanying literature and verbal explanation about the true essence of Christianity, aside from the artists' own struggle for personal holiness, could greatly help bring spiritual enlightenment to people.